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ArticleBiomedicines2023

The Role of Innovation Technology in the Rehabilitation of Patients Affected by Huntington's Disease: A Scoping Review.

Maria Grazia Maggio, Luana Billeri, Davide Cardile, Angelo Quartarone, Rocco Salvatore Calabrò

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Article in Biomedicines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Examining Balance and the Likelihood of Falls in Huntington's Disease.Clinical parkinsonism & related disorders · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Maria Grazia MaggioIRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo, S.S. 113 Via Palermo, C. da Casazza, 98124 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0757-2389
Luana BilleriIRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo, S.S. 113 Via Palermo, C. da Casazza, 98124 Messina, Italy.
Davide CardileIRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo, S.S. 113 Via Palermo, C. da Casazza, 98124 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2052-0970
Angelo QuartaroneIRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo, S.S. 113 Via Palermo, C. da Casazza, 98124 Messina, Italy.
Rocco Salvatore CalabròIRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo, S.S. 113 Via Palermo, C. da Casazza, 98124 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8566-3166

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Huntington's disease is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease caused by the repetition of cytosine, adenine, and guanine trinucleotides on the short arm of chromosome 4p16.3 within the Huntingtin gene. In this study, we aim to examine and map the existing evidence on the use of innovations in the rehabilitation of Huntington's disease. A scoping review was conducted on innovative rehabilitative treatments performed on patients with Huntington's disease. A search was performed on PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Cochrane databases to screen references of included studies and review articles for additional citations. Of an initial 1117 articles, only 20 met the search criteria. These findings showed that available evidence is still limited and that studies generally had small sample sizes and a high risk of bias. Regarding cognitive rehabilitation, it has emerged that VR- and PC-based methods as well as NIBS techniques are feasible and may have promising effects in individuals with Huntington's disease. On the other hand, scarce evidence was found for cognitive and motor training that might have a slight impact on overall cognitive function in individuals with Huntington's disease. Data show that further investigation is needed to explore the effects of innovative rehabilitation tools on cognition, especially considering that cognitive and psychiatric symptoms can precede the onset of motor symptoms by many years.

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cognitive rehabilitationHuntington’s diseaseneurorehabilitationNIBSphysical therapyvirtual reality

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PMID38255146
PMCPMC10813604

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